Writing Excuses

James Dashner joins us for a Q&A at Utah Valley University during Life, The Universe, and Everything. The first question starts out amazingly rough, but the 12-year-old asking it manages to stick the...

7 Touko 201216min

James Artimus Owen joined us in front of the live audience at LTUE in February where he was the Guest of Honor. He wanted to talk with us about "voice," and specifically how to find yours. We talk abo...

30 Huhti 201218min

Larry Correia joins Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard in front of a live audience at LTUE on Utah Valley University campus. Larry knows guns inside and out, and talks to us about the mistakes that writer...

23 Huhti 201216min

Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more... only without a big speech before the charge. We're still tearing into Mary's first novel outline in this second part of a VERY SPECIAL two-part s...

16 Huhti 201225min

Mary Robinette Kowal graciously loaned us an outline she was working on in 2003. For this podcast, Mary reads from her outline, Brandon interrupts her, and we dissect. This is a brutal process. Know, ...

9 Huhti 201222min

Today's episode of Writing Excuses is about writing excuses -- all those handy tricks that the great authors use to prevent themselves from finishing any book before its time  (let alone its deadline....

1 Huhti 201217min

It's a "Howard is clueless" episode! One of us, we won't name any names, didn't take enough English classes to know the basic conflict archetypes -- Man vs. Man, Man vs. Self, and Man vs. Nature. In t...

25 Maalis 201216min

Let's talk omniscience, because we're TOTALLY that smart. Specifically, we're talking about the omniscient viewpoints. This is the POV from which Tolkien wrote, but we see it a lot less often these da...

18 Maalis 201222min